Triumphant Song of Youth (1956)
Swimmers Akio and Natsuko train hard for national competition while Natsuko struggles with family chaos — her father’s affair and her mother’s push for an arranged marriage. Pretending to date teammate Akio to escape pressure, Natsuko soon realizes her feelings are real.
- Released
- 1956-10-24
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Runtime
- 46 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Nobuo Aoyagi, Haruo Umeda
Cast
- Akira Takarada as Akio Shimamura
- Naomi Shiraishi as Natsuko (Kintarō’s daughter)
- Takeshi Sakamoto as Genkichi Ogawa
- Kingorō Yanagiya as Kintarō Tagawa
- Nijiko Kiyokawa as Kiyoko (Kintarō’s wife)
- Yū Fujiki as Coach Saita
- Keiko Môri as Yoshiko Aida
- Michiyo Tamaki as Emiko (Cabaret waitress)
- Atsuko Ichinomiya as Genkichi’s wife
- Ichiryusai Teiho as Isohachi Yamamoto
- Yayoko Kitano as Fumiko Kawano
- Kiyomi Mizunoya as Maid Matsu